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When I started stalkingthree years ago I missed a munty at 10 yards shooting low! it was my first ever shot and having had five blank outings I had a version of buck fever. Since then I have had two further oppertunities on one occasion I fogged my scope (-5 and exhaled as I went to take the shot, T**t) and the other all I had was a head shot at a small doe some yards off and I decided not to take the shot. Fast forward to yesterday... The kids had been ill overnight so I didnt start as planned yesterday but I was on the ground for about 6. As I drove up to the farm a hare hopped out ont
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that is the question stuck in my head. The wife and I rely on a nursery and a pre-school for childcare. The statistical liklehoodof anything being wrong is really really low but it just makes you question what your doing as a parent. as i said proper brain f**k
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I new Nick and writing this is bloody hard. This is the bloke when I packed up coursing who helped me find a little family shoot to help at. He's the same bloke who helped do shoot lunches off his own back with little in return for his efforts and for whom nothing was to much trouble. Always jovial and friendly a little bit of the village idiot in him but Nick. He helped do some shotgun coaching with me and I had one of his dogs on my peg when I shot my first pheasant. He vanished just before xmas I phoned the police checked hospitals to make sure he was ok but couldnt find him anywhere. Then
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just spoke to some mates and they have three sets of fawns on there ground. was out again myself thursday and whilst I saw plenty of does no sight of fawns and two still resembled barrells
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none as yet chap. we havent silaged yet and other than woodland rides the ground cover everywhere is 2ft plus. could have easily missed them in last few outings
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friday evenings stalk
Lurchandhistribe replied to Squirrel_Basher's topic in Deer Stalking & Management
FD is his summer coat pretty much through? looks like it in pic. Im Swindon way and the ones on our ground are still very scruffy. -
New business in the pipeline........
Lurchandhistribe replied to martin's topic in Deer Stalking & Management
all the best with the enterprise. If you can get into good local pubs and restraunts they will provide a very good outlet as venison and pigeon is in high demand. its on lots of menus round here at the moment How far are you from Swindon. Work do a farmers market but you have to be from 50 miles or less? not sure what take up would be like or cost of attendance. Can find out more if of use. All the best Martin -
sorted outa dealer at CLA rabbits head shot £2, pigeon 45p each steel shot only, fallow £2 a kilo, hares £4.50 but only want to do largish numbers
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red deer/ norfolk cambridgeshire
Lurchandhistribe replied to banjo14's topic in Deer Stalking & Management
def some around Narborough / Maraham (think thats the spelling) area. Was watching a stonking munty buck at the end of my aunts garden last year and suddenly an almighty crash and two red hinds thundered past. It was first time I has seem them in the wild. -
small shoot syndicate costs
Lurchandhistribe replied to mikey's topic in Driven, Walked Up, Rough Shooting
Were not paid at the place I go, we have 16 regular beaters, we do 8 days in the season and have a days shooting at the end. Average age of beaters 30. Syndicates our way very masses from £600 to 10 times that. Depend what you want and how much your prepared to do -
load depends on birds your shooting, if your shooting at skyscrapers then id be getting the 28g 5's out.Otherwise 25 6s should be fine. Loads, aside safety first, be corteous and polite thank the keeper and by him a beer as a thanks, if you shoot well dont brag and if its going badly dont worry. Oh and have a great time
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yeah I'm Cirenester way. Still calling yesterday and out at them Sunday.
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After a few false starts over last few weeks we were out today and the woods were full of the sound of the rut, at least two stands active and a possible third. Saw one very good buck at about 120yards but to good to be taken weirdly no prickets but alot of does.
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150 bird patridge shoot
Lurchandhistribe replied to mikey's topic in Driven, Walked Up, Rough Shooting
3 to 4.5k split between 8-10 guns depending on location. -
out last night near Cirencester and had a young buck who came to the buttolo
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lean to design I think. three seats will be pretty fixed as we know they are good for deer all year round. One will get moved depending upon time of year and crop planting on the wood edges. whats the minimum box you could get away with whilst retaining rigidity?
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Need to get some high seats up in a few key locations after the previous permission holder (reasonably) removed his. A friend is a dab hand with a welder so will do that but I need a plan for him to follow. Looking for a design for a double. I assume one inch box will be perfectly good. Cheers Martin
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cull plan is 30-40 for our patch
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should also add we would be much better equipped if we didnt 1, overpay for items, 2 buy the wrong things when better tools are on the market and 3 delivered on time and to budget.
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in an ideal world we would have a kit room with a tool for every job. something for open conflicts, something for jungles, urban e.t.c the problem is the cost of having 10k or more lots of everything and then a stash of the right ammo e.t.c. then you really need to be balancing your kit with other Nations to simplfy logistics e.t.c the reality is if we adopt a 7.62 you can bet we will be in north korea or somewhere next and bemoaning the lakc of ammo or we stick with 5.56 and find ourselves still in afgan needing a 7.62. sod being the procurement fella you cant win.
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intresting point on the wire. we have miles of the stuff on our patch and this year keeper has had to shoot two prickets that have been hung up and the buck i shot a few weeks back had clear scaring from a run in with wire. We have a lot of dog walkers in our area my gut feel is there is a link. back to the heads. is there in stats on what % of normal heads to freaky ones their are and do certain areas of the country tend to have a greater % of freaky ones. Intrested as I dont think I have ever seen a freaky one and we have a good population of Roe in and around where I walk the hounds. Id
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cheers lads. I had hoped to be out this week but family duties call. Hopefully a post next week on whether we have any luck catching up with the roe buck. Will let you know one way or other.
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Hi I have been stalking for about 6 months and am being mentored by a local keeper and pest controller. So here is a write up on a stalk a few weeks back. It was a quick dash home through the traffic a lightning lap of the fields with dogs and on site by about 6. The sun was out and the air was still nice and warm with that nice breeze of a spring evening. I jumped in the keep's truck and headed to the furthest boundary as we had been seeing a roe buck that was a suitable cull beast. We parked up sorted out our gear and headed off along the back of a small plantation towards the bounda
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we find alot of dead deer on our ground, mainly hit by cars but a porportion have been poached either run by dogs or shot and lets be clear the average walker isnt on a quad bike or in a transit at 3am in the morning with a lamp! if we catch the f*ckers I will happily call the rozzers. I aint an anti either im just fed up of finding deer with missing jaws starving or like a couple of beasts not long ago they had taken the haunches off and dumped the rest to rot! happy hunting but for feck sake with some honesty & respect for your quarry.
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just applied for my ticket and have gone for 308. Have oppertunity to shoot munty, roe and fallow and advice from three friends all said go that route despite two of them using 243. loads of choice in both rifles and ammo